BRUSSELS- The American visual, performance and video artist James Lee Byars (1932-1997) made an emphatic mark on the post-war avant-garde. "From Life to Art and Back Again" compiles three videos documenting an artist whose life and work were inseparably linked. Jef Cornelis film documents Byars exhibition at the Antwerp Wide White Space Gallery in 1969. The artist talks to Walter Van Dijck about the meaning of art and clothing, the beauty of natural landscapes in an urban setting, the role of museums, and Byars conception that an exhibition is the translation of his ideas. The conversation is intersected with footage of participants in Byars performance in the streets of Antwerp. The video essay entitled "The 100 Images are in One Second", made by Byars and Continental Video, combines autobiographical material  Byars participation in exhibitions at the Centre Pompidou in Paris, Guggenheim in New York and Documenta V in Kassel, and performances of his own and by other artists, with numerous references to classical painting. Underpinned by the music of Satie, this nimbly edited work is a loose, humorous and sometimes arresting reflection on the position art occupies in life.

Peter Brosens "The Death of James Lee Byars" is based on the artists installation/performance of the same title and also on "The White Mass". In the first, Byars stages his own death and in the second he reduces a gothic church to its essence: white robes cover the windows, the cross and the altar in a performance led by a priest that balances between a church service and Byars own ideas. The exhibition opens on February 2 and runs through March 27, 2010.